What is inevitable when someone picks up a book? They eventually look at the back cover. Since the ONLY place to buy my books is on my website, we added a VIEW THE BACK OF THE BOOK FEATURE.
My web designer, Joyce, used the same process to create this SUPER FANTASTIC idea as she used on my photo page.
On my website homepage is the front covers of each book in the trilogy, Kathryn's Beach, High Tide, and Storm Surge. Want to see the back cover? Click on the book. Ta-da! There it is. And it is a readable size.
Click on the link to my website on the sidebar to the left of this post. (This feature is also on the books page...go check that out!)
Just another innovative idea from Nadine Laman Books, LLC. How about that? Personally, I don't know any other writer who has the real back of the book on their website. If you do, leave a link in the comments section.
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
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When Paul Fenton stops for breakfast in a small town, he gets more than he bargained for in the process.
When two-hundred-year-old human remains are discovered on one of Neptune's moons, Earth's history falls into question.
Emily's husband persuades her to try thalidomide to ease her symptoms as she is unaware of the devastating effects.
Who is the women's shelter bomber? Melissa Ryan suspects that her husband knows.
Further developments with the Wilder family.
A hidden past shakes the O'Donovan family to its core
A swirl of emotion and choice, set in Cape Town, South Africa
Love is a constant, but it comes at a price.
When the road ahead is unclear, sometimes you have to rely on trust.
The struggle between good and evil is ages old. It gets all the more complicated when the good guys aren't all good and the bad guys have redeeming qualities.
Story of a land mothering two races of people – the light-skinned and the dark-skinned.
A gifted Ukrainian ballerina comes into possession of a mysteriously coded address book.
Six passengers' lives change for better or worse after they arrive in Honiton.
Resilience and love in a harsh and unforgiving age
Kathryn's Beach
High Tide
Storm Surge
There are two places most book browsers look for information:
ReplyDelete1. The ad blurb on the back of the book (or the flyleaf on the cover of a hardback).
2. The excerpt page just inside the front cover (first page).
On a website, this can be presented with the ad "blurb" as a block of text on the page and the inside excerpt either on the web page or as a link to a specialized page (or pop-up).
At akwbooks.com, we do something like that for our eBooks and eNovels.
Congratulations! I am glad to see you so happy ;)
ReplyDeleteFor a website that sells the book, you could also add the free sampler. E-version. You do have a fantastic paper version.
All the best,
NW
Hello both of you,
ReplyDeleteYou seem to be on the same page, half a world apart -- geographically.
eBooks are a controversial topic with me, perhaps I should blog about them some day, perhaps tonight. (Though I won't send out notices on that one, you'll just have to come back tomorrow.) The question remains: are eBooks the future, or a return to the past?
For now people will have to get excerpts from my books from the excerpts page of my website and from this blog. My books have successfully had the interior scan removed from googlebooks. There is always the free sample people can request. That will have to do.
Nadine
Nidhi,
ReplyDeleteCongratulations! I've just learned of your pending publishing contract for your debut ms.
Wow!